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Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:15:59 -0400Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:26:12 -0400Paranoia-Rama: Beware 'Mussolini' Obama, Gay 'Terrorists' … And People Votinghttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/paranoia-rama-beware-mussolini-obama-gay-terrorists-and-people-voting
<p><em>RWW&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/paranoia-rama">Paranoia-Rama</a> takes a look at five of the week&rsquo;s most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.</em></p>
<p>With the election less than two weeks away, conservative commentators are making some pretty terrifying predictions about how President Obama will serve out the remainder of his term. But last-minute Obama-bashing won&rsquo;t distract them from their other, equally important, job: attacking gays and lesbians.</p>
<p><strong>5. Ernst Goes There</strong></p>
<p>Since securing the GOP nomination for her state&rsquo;s open U.S. Senate seat, Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst has been trying to downplay <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/get-ready-america-five-extreme-gop-candidates-who-could-be-heading-congress-next-year"> her extremist record</a>.</p>
<p>But the Republican candidate is having a hard time running away from her past remarks on such issues as the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/paranoia-rama-straights-forced-closet-las-vegas-false-flag-agenda-21-destroying-iowa"> danger of the UN&rsquo;s Agenda 21 </a> and the ability of local law enforcement to <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/10/06/joni_ernsts_extremist_history_iowas_gop_senate_candidate_supported_prison_for_obamacare_officials/"> arrest federal officials implementing Obamacare</a>.</p>
<p>In the latest example of Ernst&rsquo;s record catching up to her, a video surfaced this week of the candidate <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/joni-ernst-guns_n_6032164.html">telling an audience at a 2012 NRA event</a> that the reason she takes her gun &ldquo;virtually everywhere&rdquo; is because she is afraid of not only violent assailants but also the government: &ldquo;I believe in the right to defend myself and my family &mdash; whether it&rsquo;s from an intruder, or whether it&rsquo;s from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Ed Kilgore <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_10/joni_ernst_and_the_right_to_re052606.php">explains</a> the thinking behind Ernst&rsquo;s claim: &ldquo;The idea here is to intimidate liberals, and &lsquo;looters&rsquo; and secular socialists, and <em>those peop</em>le, that there are limits to what the good virtuous folk of the country will put up with in the way of interference with their property rights and their religious convictions and their sense of how the world ought to work. If push comes to shove, they&rsquo;re heavily armed, and bullets outweigh ballots.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>4. Obama Will Kill Us All!</strong></p>
<p>If you wonder where Joni Ernst gets her ideas about an imminent government crackdown that may require a violent response, look no further than Fox News, where just this week Sean Hannity hosted conservative pundit Mark Levin to discuss President Obama&rsquo;s nefarious agenda.</p>
<p>Levin told Hannity that Obama is imposing &ldquo;quintessential statism&rdquo; on America that &ldquo;is a disaster,&rdquo; Media Matters <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/10/21/mark-levin-urges-viewers-to-vote-republican-bec/201260">reports</a>.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The country has gone to Hell under this president and under the Democrat [sic] Party,&rdquo; Levin said, warning that after the election, &ldquo;with Obama it&rsquo;s going to get worse, you&rsquo;re going to see his full Mussolini coming out.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Wayne Allyn Root, another conservative commentator, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wayne-allyn-root-remove-obama-office-he-kills-all-us">managed to top Levin&rsquo;s remarks</a> in an interview on the &ldquo;Point of View&rdquo; radio show, where he claimed that Obama &ldquo;was sent here to destroy this country,&rdquo; possibly by the &ldquo;communist forces&rdquo; of the Soviet Union or the Bilderbergs, and is &ldquo;taking down the entire America.&rdquo; Root added: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to remove him from office and fast before he kills all of us.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>3. Latest Voter Fraud Menace</strong></p>
<p>We keep hearing stories about Republicans increasing their outreach to African American and Latino voters, but their enthusiastic efforts to prevent people <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/10/24/ballot-dispute-in-georgia-heads-to-courts-and-could-be-a-factor-in-states-close-senate-race/"> from registering to vote </a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/10/24/ballot-dispute-in-georgia-heads-to-courts-and-could-be-a-factor-in-states-close-senate-race/"> from casting ballots </a> may not be helping their case.</p>
<p>Take a recent incident in Arizona, where a GOP official and conservative media outlets <a href="http://wonkette.com/564064/latino-guy-delivers-absentee-ballots-in-arizona-youll-never-guess-what-happens-next">fumed</a> that an activist with a progressive group dropped off a box of absentee ballots at a polling center, which is completely legal. Immediately, conservatives accused the activist &mdash; a Latino man &mdash; of committing voter fraud through &ldquo;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEQpHfnJz-c">ballot stuffing</a>&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.gilbertwatch.com/index.cfm/blog/voter-fraud-in-arizona-s-2014-election-you-be-the-judge/">wondered</a> if he was a violent &ldquo;illegal alien.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Of course, not only is delivering ballots on behalf of voters <a href="http://lwvaz.org/files/voter_fraud_no_it_is_not.pdf">legal in Arizona</a>, but <a href="http://wonkette.com/564273/arizona-gop-will-murder-all-early-voting-unless-it-is-with-mitt-romney">Wonkette notes</a> that Republicans brought in Mitt Romney to host a ballot drop-off campaign event this very week.</p>
<p>Thursday night, Mitt Romney made an appearance in Mesa, Arizona, to campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Ducey. A graphic on a couple of conservative blogs, reproduced up top, urged attendees to &ldquo;Bring your Early Ballots!&rdquo; so GOP get-out-the-vote volunteers could collect them and get them to the county elections office.</p>
<p>Just remember, it&rsquo;s only okay if Republicans do it, otherwise it&rsquo;s voter fraud.</p>
<p><strong>2. Beware Gay Plants, Or Something </strong></p>
<p>Matt Barber&rsquo;s website BarbWire today <a href="http://barbwire.com/2014/10/24/houstons-day-triffids/">published</a> an unintentionally hilarious piece by columnist Lee Duigon, who compares gays to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffid">super-plants from outer space that eat people</a>.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;Gaydeology,&rdquo; the dogma that &ldquo;sexual liberation&rdquo; is the highest moral value, presses forward aggressively on all fronts. Christians are to be punished by the state if they refuse to knuckle under. But the militant &ldquo;gays&rdquo; are only the street muscle for a &ldquo;progressive&rdquo; project to beat down church, family, and anything else that competes with the secular, God-denying state for the loyalty of every citizen. This vision for America, and for all the other countries of the Western world, has roots in the 19th century that sprouted into man-eating plants in the 20th, to become a worldwide plague in the 21st.<br />
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It is reminiscent of &ldquo;The Day of the Triffids,&rdquo; a classic horror movie about plants from outer space that infest the earth and strike blind anyone who gets too close.<br />
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Well, we have been blind, haven&rsquo;t we? Blind to threats to our freedom, blind to the vast incompetence of government, and blind to its insatiable lust for power. Worst of all, we have been both blind and deaf to God our maker and our Father, whose blessings have been the lifeblood of America.</p>
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<p>Maybe that should be the rallying cry of the anti-gay movement: Beware the triffids!</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> <strong> Gay &lsquo;Terrorists&rsquo; Out To Get Us</strong></p>
<p>Pat Robertson, who once warned viewers that they could become the victims of a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-gay-people-deliberately-spread-hivaids-cutting-people-special-rings" target="_blank"> gay &lsquo;AIDS ring&rsquo; attack</a>, lashed out at gay rights advocates on &ldquo;The 700 Club&rdquo; this week and accused them of trying to throw their opponents in jail.</p>
<p>Robertson didn&rsquo;t hold back, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-gay-rights-advocates-are-terrorists-radicals-and-extremists">warning that gay &ldquo;terrorists&rdquo;</a> are launching their own Spanish Inquisition: &ldquo;These people are terrorists, they&rsquo;re radicals and they&rsquo;re extremists. No Christian in his right mind would ever try to enforce somebody against their belief or else suffer jail. They did that during the Inquisition, it was horrible, it was a black mark on our history, but it isn&rsquo;t being done now.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Of course, Robertson&rsquo;s argument relied on a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/5-years-after-passage-hate-crimes-law-religious-rights-dire-predictions-still-havent-come-tr"> twisted reading </a> of a legal case in Houston, Texas, but that didn&rsquo;t stop him from attacking the &ldquo;monstrous&rdquo; gay rights movement.</p>
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Brian TashmanC4Election 2014Joni ErnstLee DuigonMark Levin Paranoia-RamaPat Robertson Voter FraudWayne Allyn RootBarbWireFighting the Right48783Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:15:59 -0400Voter FraudTea Party Nation Claims More Than A Million Democrats Voted Twice In 2012http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-claims-more-million-democrats-voted-twice-2012
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<p>Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips has been hard at work crunching numbers, and today announces a starting conclusion: President Obama won reelection in 2012 because <em>more than a million people</em> cast votes in two states.</p>
<p>How did Phillips <a href="http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/how-did-obama-win-2012">reach this number</a>?</p>
<p>Well, he starts with a North Carolina elections board report that it <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/04/02/3753199/nc-election-officials-identify.html?sp=/99/102/105/">found 35,750 records</a> of people who voted in the state whose names and birthdays matched people who had voted in other states.</p>
<p>North Carolina used a program run by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, which <a href="http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/04/whos-driving-north-carolinas-latest-voter-fraud-hy.html">even Kobach acknowledges</a> produces a &ldquo;significant number&rdquo; of &ldquo;false positives.&rdquo; Officials using the program in Ohio and Colorado <a href="http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/04/whos-driving-north-carolinas-latest-voter-fraud-hy.html"> failed to identify a single case of fraudulent voting </a> from the &ldquo;matches&rdquo; that the program produced. Even the North Carolina elections board has backtracked from its original blockbuster number, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/04/03/3422497/nc-report-double-voting/">telling ThinkProgress</a> that &ldquo;we are not jumping to conclusions here.&rdquo; In other words, North Carolina&rsquo;s report contains no proof of any voter fraud, much less 35,000 cases of it.</p>
<p>But never mind the facts! Phillips then &ldquo;extrapolate[s]&rdquo; the North Carolina figure &ldquo;out over the entire population&rdquo; to guess that there &ldquo;could be over one million double votes in 2012,&rdquo; thereby winning President Obama the election. (Of course, in Phillips&rsquo; reckoning, all of these imaginary cases of voter fraud were perpetrated by Democrats &ndash; although they still weren&rsquo;t enough to win North Carolina for the president).</p>
<p>&ldquo;Democrats are not winning elections,&rdquo; he concludes. &ldquo; They are taking them the old fashioned way. They are stealing them.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>What is the shocking secret that may explain how Obama got a second term?</strong></p>
<p>A study done in North Carolina showed that 35,750 people who live and voted in North Carolina may have voted in another state in the 2012 Presidential election. The study was based on comparing the first and last names along with date of birth for people who voted in 28 other states. In 765 of those cases, social security numbers matched as well.</p>
<p>This number would have probably been larger but only 28 states participated and the four largest states, California, New York, Texas and Florida did not participate.</p>
<p><strong>If you extrapolate this figure out over the entire population, that could be over one million double votes in 2012. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Democrats are not winning elections. They are taking them the old fashioned way. They are stealing them.</strong></p>
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<p>Lest we think that Phillips is just pushing a fringe argument, Kobach himself yesterday made a very similar claim, citing absolutely no evidence to claim that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kris-kobach-claims-voter-fraud-real-because-widows-vote-their-late-husbands-all-time"> widows are voting &ldquo;all the time&rdquo; on behalf of their deceased husbands</a>. <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kobach-claims-voting-rights-groups-want-loosey-goosey-system-so-they-can-benefit-fraud">Kobach has previously claimed </a>that the &ldquo;radical left&rdquo; opposes his suppressive policies because they &ldquo;feel they can benefit&rdquo; from massive fraud.</p>
<p>And, to Phillips&rsquo; credit, his voter fraud estimate is more conservative than that of former Libertarian vice presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root, who estimates that Democrats &ldquo;across the country&rdquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wayne-allyn-root-democrats-won-2012-voting-10-times-each"> voted <em>ten times each</em> for President Obama </a> .</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> It appears that Phillips may have gotten his conclusion from Dick Morris, who wrote an <a href="http://thehill.com/opinion/dick-morris/203019-dick-morris-investigate-2012-vote-fraud">op-ed in <em>The Hill</em> </a>this week making the same claim. Meanwhile, the theory is getting debunked <a href="http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/04/after-initial-hysteria-back-pedaling-over-nc-voter.html">again </a>and<a href="http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/apr/10/dick-morris/dick-morris-theres-proof-over-1-million-people-vot/"> again</a>.</p>
Miranda BlueC4Judson PhillipsKris Kobach Tea Party NationVoter FraudVoting RightsThe Right to Vote46462Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:38:49 -0400Voter FraudSome Voter Fraud Myths Never Diehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/some-voter-fraud-myths-never-die
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<p>When Allen West lost his seat in Congress in 2012, his supporters immediately <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wilson-turnout-numbers-charge-voter-fraud">cried voter fraud</a> based on a claim that one county in his Florida district had reported 141 percent of its registered voters turning out to the polls. The claim was bogus, because the 141 percent figure was <a href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/HaireoftheDog/archives/2012/11/12/charges-of-voter-fraud-in-ohio-and-fla-complete-bs">misleading</a>.</p>
<p>The actual turnout in the county was <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/2012fraud.asp">69.56 percent</a>, while the 141 percent figure represented the number of &ldquo;cards cast.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Since the ballot was two pages long, every voter cast two cards, hence the initial report that the number of &ldquo;cards cast&rdquo; amounted to 141 percent of registered voters.</p>
<p>Even the voter-fraud obsessed group True the Vote <a href="http://www.truethevote.org/news/the-numbers-are-now-talking-explained">notes</a> that in &ldquo;St. Lucie County, ballots were at least two pages or &lsquo;cards.&rsquo; Policy dictates that each card be counted separately, leading to a total of 247,383 &lsquo;votes&rsquo;, aka cards, cast. Divide the number by half, then exhale.&rdquo;</p>
<p>So even though this claim of voter fraud has been debunked, a right-wing group is still citing the bogus charge in its opposition to restoring the Voting Rights Act. Speaking with the American Family Association&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics/2014/01/29/project-21-warns-bipartisan-bill-would-actually-bolster-voting-fraud#.UulTjbTMpQW"><em>OneNewsNow</em></a> today, Bob Parks of <a href="http://project21.org/P21Index.html">Project 21</a> used the imaginary 141 percent figure to allege that massive voter fraud is undeniable:</p>
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An organization of black conservatives says a new bill provides election fraudsters with opportunity to potentially steal elections by nullifying the votes of law-abiding citizens.<br />
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Now the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 &ndash; sponsored by both Republican and Democratic lawmakers &ndash; would create a new formula; and with it new criteria that could force even more jurisdictions to have to report to federal overseers on all matters related to the electoral process.<br />
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Bob Parks, who operates the website Black & Right, is a member of the national advisory council for Project 21.<br />
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"Having [a] federal government &ndash; especially [one] like this one that has an attorney general who picks and chooses which crimes and which offenses that he wishes to investigate, [and] which laws that they will simply ignore &ndash; it's ripe for corruption," he argues.<br />
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According to Parks, upwards of 19 states have counties with more than 100-percent voter registration. "You have situations ... I believe it was in the Allen West race in Florida where the voting was 141-percent," he recalls. "You can't tell me there's not a voter fraud problem."</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4OneNewsNow Project 21Voter FraudFighting the Right45562Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:35:35 -0400Voter FraudWhat Happens When You Get All Of Your News From Bryan Fischerhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-happens-when-you-get-all-your-news-bryan-fischer
<p>Today on <em>Focal Point</em>, Bryan Fischer took a call from Ricky from Baton Rouge, who told the American Family Association spokesman that he gets &ldquo;80-90%&rdquo; of his news from Fischer...and the rest from David Barton and Tony Perkins.</p>
<p>Ricky urged Fischer to stop treating President Obama as a legitimate president since &ldquo;George Soros and the ungodly Demon-crat Party&rdquo; used fraud to help President Obama and Harry Reid win re-election.</p>
<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re exactly right,&rdquo; Fischer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afjGc1vla9s&feature=youtu.be">said</a>.</p>
<p>Fischer agreed and demanded that Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;election ought to have an asterisk by it&rdquo; because he used voter fraud to increase Democratic votes and the IRS to repress conservatives.</p>
<p>We don&rsquo;t expect Ricky to see that claims of 2012 <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/2012fraud.asp">voter</a> <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9757">fraud</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/irs-scandal-democratic-acorn_n_3785717.html">Tea Party</a> <a href="http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/08/20/20106920-a-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-irs-scandal?lite">persecution</a> by the IRS have been wholly discredited, but will sadly continue to get all of his news from disreputable sources like Fischer, Perkins and Barton.</p>
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Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Bryan FischerC4Voter FraudFighting the Right44444Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:35:05 -0400Voter FraudWilson Twists Turnout Numbers to Charge Democrats with Voter Fraudhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wilson-turnout-numbers-charge-voter-fraud
<p>We were expecting conservatives to immediately blame their election defeats on voter fraud, and predictably their claims don&rsquo;t have a leg to stand on. Yesterday, Buster Wilson of the American Family Association on AFA Today said that Rep. Allen West lost his campaign for re-election because of Democratic voter fraud, a point also made by AFA spokesman <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanJFischer/status/267364401919700993">Bryan Fischer</a>. Just like when Wilson thought he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-hoax-obama-foreign-student">discovered</a> Obama&rsquo;s student ID proving he wasn&rsquo;t born in the U.S. or <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/buster-wilson-repeats-false-claim-national-weather-service-buying-ammunition">exposed</a> the militarization of the National Weather Service, Wilson now believes he uncovered massive voter fraud in Florida.</p>
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<blockquote> Allen West is one of the greatest Americans I&rsquo;ve ever met. I just love this guy. I want to tell you, Allen West is the kind of American that after being around for just a few minutes you just go, man, I&rsquo;m proud to be an American! Just being around him does that to me. His life story is awesome, his conservative politics is admirable, I&rsquo;m not happy to see this. However, Rep. West is unwilling to concede because of the fraud in the voting in his district. He said there is one voting district there that had 141 percent of registered voters voting. 141 percent? That&rsquo;s a little bit over the right number, isn&rsquo;t it?</blockquote>
<p>But Wilson&rsquo;s claim, which is also touted on conservative sites like <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/heatherginsberg/2012/11/10/breaking_massive_voter_fraud_in_st_lucie_county_florida">Townhall</a> and <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/adding-up-the-evidence-to-a-stolen-election/?cat_orig=us">WorldNetDaily</a>, that a county in West&rsquo;s district had &ldquo;141 percent of registered voters voting&rdquo; is not true.</p>
<p>The number Wilson points to is actually the percentage of &ldquo;cards cast.&rdquo; Since the ballot contains two cards, or the number of pages on the ballot, the voter turnout rate is approximately half of the cards cast [<a href="http://www.slcelections.com/Pdf Docs/2012 General/GEMS SOVC REPORT.pdf">PDF</a>].</p>
<p>As Chris Haire <a href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/HaireoftheDog/archives/2012/11/12/charges-of-voter-fraud-in-ohio-and-fla-complete-bs">explains</a>:</p>
<blockquote> As for the case of St. Lucie, Fla., where 141 percent of registered voters apparently voted, I talked to a source there who says that only 70 percent of registered voters cast ballots. The reason for the mix up: This year's ballot was two-pages long, and for whatever reason, the St. Lucie Election Commission election day report notes the number of "cards" cast and not the number of ballots. Which means that the number of votes that were actually cast were half of what WND and others are now reporting.</blockquote>
<p>And the county supervisor of elections <a href="http://www.slcelections.com/">notes</a>:</p>
<blockquote>Turnout percentages will show over 100% due to a two page ballot. the tabulation system (GEMS) provides voter turnout as equal to the total cards cast in the election divided by the number of registered voters. Also note that some voters chose not to return by mail the second card containing the amendments.</blockquote>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Wilson&rsquo;s colleague at AFA Sandy Rios also claimed on her <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147491277&tab=audio&audio=2147529187">radio show</a> that the presidential election and West&rsquo;s race were &ldquo;stolen,&rdquo; making the same exact false claim that in &ldquo;Allen West&rsquo;s congressional district, initially on the first count, I think 140 percent of the people registered to vote, voted.&rdquo; Rios added that the overwhelming support Obama received in inner-city precincts is proof of fraud, even though such <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/11/13/those_pesky_urban_voters.html">overwhelming margins</a> are neither without precedent nor evidence of fraud.</p>
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<blockquote> I just heard Paul Ryan in the news, in an interview he was saying that President Obama deserves to be congratulated because he won fair and square. I am not quite sure why he would say that, I don&rsquo;t agree with that. I find myself increasingly believing that this election was indeed stolen and I&rsquo;ll tell you why, I&rsquo;ve been telling you why. Allen West alone in Florida, 4,000 voters were added to his opponent's tally just in mere minutes late at night, 1:00 in the morning, 4,000 votes were flipped to his opponent and at that time Allen West was ahead by like 2,500 votes or something like that. In many precincts Ohio, in over one hundred of them, President Obama got over 99 percent of the vote, which is statistically impossible. In Allen West&rsquo;s congressional district, initially on the first count I think 140 percent of the people registered to vote, voted. So you see what I&rsquo;m saying?</blockquote>Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Buster WilsonC4Voter FraudThe Right to Vote41530Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:00:44 -0400Voter FraudJoseph Farah Compares himself to Martin Luther King over his Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theoryhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joseph-farah-martin-luther-king-vote-fraud-conspiracy
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<p>Naturally, the far-right fringe is blaming Obama&rsquo;s election victory on voter fraud. <em>WorldNetDaily</em> editor Joseph Farah released a new <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/did-voter-fraud-swing-election/">column</a> which started with the line, &ldquo;I am not a conspiracy theorist.&rdquo; Farah said that Obama must have won through fraud because he won in states with Republican governors and legislatures, and also claimed that Obama &ldquo;welcomed foreign contributions,&rdquo; including one donation under &ldquo;the name Osama bin Laden.&rdquo; The bin Laden donation hoax has been <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/10/30/sorry-drudge-the-obama-campaign-is-not-acceptin/191002">debunked</a> before &ndash; the Obama campaign notes that while some contributions &ldquo;may have initially appeared to have gone through when the donor completed the transaction,&rdquo; they were later rejected.</p>
<p>Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association and his fellow staff members appear to believe any conspiratorial column which reaches their desk, and so he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/american-family-association-george-clooney-election-obama">once again</a> invited Farah onto his radio show to explain how voter fraud swung the election to Obama, since it is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/american-family-association-george-clooney-election-obama">inconceivable</a> to them that the majority of Americans would vote for him.</p>
<p>But Farah said that <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-accepts-osama-bin-laden-donations/">WND&rsquo;s possibly illegal donation</a> to Obama using bin Laden&rsquo;s name is just like &ldquo;what Martin Luther King did, sometimes you&rsquo;ve got to actually commit civil disobedience to get people&rsquo;s attention to the injustices that are going on.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Later, Wildmon talked about the decision by UPS to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ups-yanks-boy-scout-support-anti-gay-policies-article-1.1201171">pull funding</a> from the Boy Scouts of America over the group&rsquo;s ban on openly gay members, which is making the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Association#Boycotts">prolific boycotters</a> at the AFA consider a pressure campaign. Farah said that the decision is proof that the &ldquo;culture is deteriorating&rdquo; and urged Religious Right activists &ldquo;to figure out how to reverse this or stop this real fast.&rdquo;</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>Wildmon</strong>: Have you heard about the Boy Scouts and UPS?<br />
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<strong>Farah</strong>: I saw that and it&rsquo;s just astonishing. It&rsquo;s harder to get packages delivered&mdash; <br />
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<strong>Wildmon</strong>: I know, pretty soon we&rsquo;re going to have to move to the mountains and live off the land. It really is and that&rsquo;s why we here at the American Family Association, we don&rsquo;t call for boycotts very often despite our reputation, and when we do we&rsquo;re serious about it and we&rsquo;ve exhausted every means of appeal to a particular company, like we have done with Home Depot and their sponsorship of gay pride parades. At the same time it doesn&rsquo;t hurt to inform people about what these corporations do, if you don&rsquo;t call for a boycott just let people know because if they do business with these companies and they might say if you do any business with UPS just tell your driver or your local office, &lsquo;hey guys, you realize what you did, and I will have to consider how much business I see with you because of this,&rsquo; and that moves up the food chain. <br />
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<strong>Farah</strong>: Tim, I want you to think back to twenty years ago and try to imagine that we would have corporations essentially declaring war on the Boy Scouts of America. <br />
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<strong>Wildmon</strong>: We live in the Twilight Zone.<br />
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<strong>Farah</strong>: Try to imagine going back twenty years and you&rsquo;d have a real powerful movement for same-sex marriage, and it&rsquo;s actually winning now on ballot initiatives in several states, this is how rapidly the culture is deteriorating. It&rsquo;s not happening in a vacuum, it&rsquo;s happening because there are people and forces, powerful forces, that are making it happen and we have to figure out how to reverse this or stop this real fast.<br />
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<strong>Wildmon</strong>: That&rsquo;s exactly right.</blockquote>Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association C4Joseph Farah Marriage EqualityTim Wildmon Voter FraudWorldNetDaily Fighting the Right41522Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:30:02 -0400Voter FraudSchlafly and Allies Prepare to Blame Election Loss on Voter Fraudhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-and-allies-prepare-blame-election-loss-voter-fraud
<p>Leading up to what promises to be a very close presidential election, the Right has been working hard to lay the groundwork for blaming an Obama victory on &ldquo;voter fraud.&rdquo; The same strategy worked wonders last time around, when, one year after President Obama&rsquo;s decisive victory a<a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/poll-gop-base-thinks-obama-didnt-actually-win-2008-election----acorn-stole-it.php"> full half of Republicans</a> believed that the community organizing group ACORN had stolen the election. In-person voter fraud, as John McCain strategist Steve Schmidt <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/11/05/1139141/mccain-strategist-admits-voter-fraud-doesnt-really-exist/">admitted today</a>, is a convenient part of &ldquo;the mythology now in the Republican Party,&rdquo; one that as Josh <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/i-dont-want-everybody-vote">noted earlier</a> has helped to fuel decades of voter suppression measures.</p>
<p>At an Eagle Forum conference in September &ndash; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/todd-akin-compares-criticism-his-remarks-beheadings-islamic-extremists">attended by Todd Akin</a>, among others &ndash; two speakers addressed the issue of voter fraud: Catherine Engelbrecht, whose group True the Vote has been <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/us/politics/groups-like-true-the-vote-are-looking-very-closely-for-voter-fraud.html?pagewanted=all">challenging registered voters </a>across the country, and John Fund, a conservative columnist and author of a recent book on the issue.</p>
<p>Fund claimed that President Obama wants the election to go to the Supreme Court, and that in a close election, the president would use the now-defunct ACORN to change the outcome: &ldquo;The election is close, and he puts his thumb on the scale of democracy, and he sends his old ACORN friends the signal, you know what&rsquo;s going to happen.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>&nbsp;After Engelbrecht&rsquo;s speech, Schlafly joined her on stage to share news she had heard from &ldquo;somebody&rdquo; that in Pennsylvania, &ldquo;at two o&rsquo;clock in the afternoon they have no Republican observer, the Democrats just vote [for] the rest of the people who haven&rsquo;t voted.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think it goes on,&rdquo; Engelbrecht agreed.</p>
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<p>It&rsquo;s bad enough that the employees of <a href="http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12342">ACORN</a> have had to endure days of <a href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_2008_10_right_wing_smear">baseless and outlandish attacks</a> by John McCain and the RNC. But after McCain outrageously claimed before a national audience on Wednesday night that ACORN was &ldquo;maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy,&rdquo; the group <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/54360.html">came under attack</a>, literally. In the following days, ACORN&rsquo;s Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized and at least one employee received a death threat.</p>
<p>And for nearly two weeks, ACORN offices across the nation have been subjected to an onslaught of racist and threatening voicemails and emails. We have secured copies of some of the most disturbing and offensive messages and have reproduced them below in order to show the very real consequences of the Right Wing&rsquo;s overheated and misplaced &ldquo;voter fraud&rdquo; rhetoric.</p>
<p><strong>Warning: </strong>the emails and voicemails below are highly explicit and have only been edited to remove personally identifying information. Please also note that, where relevant, the proper authorities have been notified.</p>
<p><strong>Voicemail #1:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p>&ldquo;Hi, I was just calling to let you all know that Barack Obama needs to get hung. He's a fucking nigger, and he's a piece of shit. You guys are fraudulent, and you need to go to hell. All the niggers on oak trees. They're gonna get all hung honeys, they're gonna get assassinated, they're gonna get killed.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong>Email #1:</strong> This email was received by the Cleveland office. The subject line was the name of a senior staffer who had recently appeared on TV to defend the group.</p>
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<p>According to <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/54360.html">McClatchy</a>, the email was traced back to a Facebook account featuring a&nbsp;McCain-Palin sign.</p>
<p><strong>Email #2:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Voicemail #2:</strong></p>
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<p>"You liberal idiots. Dumb shits. Welfare bums. You guys just fucking come to our country, consume every natural resource there is, and make a lot of babies. That's all you guys do. And then suck up the welfare and expect everyone else to pay for your hospital bills for your kids. I just say let your kids die. That's the best move. Just let your children die. Forget about paying for hospital bills for them. I'm not gonna do it. You guys are lowlifes. And I hope you all die."</p>
</blockquote>Josh GlasstetterACORNBarack ObamaEmailsJohn McCain Racismracistrepublican national committee ThreatsvoicemailsVote FraudVoter Fraud28983Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:42:23 -0400Voter Fraud